Samayasara

SR No.: 006530
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 336
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 15 MB

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Samuyasārd
Chapter - 3
Raison d'etre of the Soul's Bondage by Karma
जाव ण वेदि विसेसंतरं तु आदासवाण दोण्हं पि।
अण्णाणी ताव दु सो कोहादिसु वट्टदे जीवो॥१॥ jāvu na vedi visesamtaram tu ādāsavāna dohnam pi.
aņņānī tāva du so kohādisu vattade jīvo.. 1
कोहादिसु वटुंतस्स तस्स कम्मस्स संचओ होदि।
जीवस्सेवं बंधो भणिदो खलु सव्वदरिसीहिं॥२॥ kohādisu vattaintassu tassa kummassa samcao hodi. · jīvassevam barndho bhanido khalu savvadarasīhim..2
(Jāva (jīvo]) As long as the soul) (nä vedi visesamtaram) does not distinguish between (ādāsavāna donham pi tu) the self and the causes of influx of karmic matter, (tāva du so annāṇī) such unenlightened one (kohādisu vattade) remains engrossed in anger and the like.
(Kohādisu vattam tassa) Its engrossment in anger and the like (tassa kammassa saincao hodi) causes the accumulation (and bondage) of karmic matter; (evam jīvassa bamdho) this is the process of bondage (khalu savvadarisīhim bhanido) which is surely described by the omniscient (s) in the scriptures).
Annotations :
In these and a few succeeding verses, Ācārya Kundakunda lays down the criterion of distinction between the enlightened and the unenlightened aspirants. To understand the significance of this criterion, it is necessary to grasp the process of bondage of karmic matter with soul. We shall, therefore, first recapitulate this process.
We have often stressed the inherent purity and the innate potentiality of perfection of the soul and the possibility of self-realization or emancipation. The selfsame fact of emancipation, again, presupposes corruption and defilement of the soul with state of worldly existence. The corruption, itself, is basically due to beginningless ignorance about truth and ignorance, again, presupposes the soul's association with karma. The fundamental essence of the doctrine of karma is, thus, based on the cyclic nature of the system which means that the effect of old existing karma